Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.